Rajshri Deshpande is a professional Indian actress and activist. She is famous for her role of Laxmi in Angry Indian Goddess and Subhadra in Sacred Games.
She has also worked in several web series like The Fame Game, Kanpuriye, Ghost Stories, Aarya, and Feels Like Ishq.
Rajshri Deshpande Birth & Early Life
She was born on 14th October 1983 in a middle-class Maharashtrian family. Her parents are retired government workers.
She is the youngest among three children. Her two elder sisters are doctors and teachers.
Rajshri graduated in law from Symbiosis Law School. She did her post-graduation in advertising from Symbiosis International University.
She has done diploma in filmmaking from Whistling Woods International, Mumbai.
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Rajshri Deshpande Career
Film
She made her professional debut in the year 2012 with Reema Kagti’s Talaash starring alongside Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan.
Later, She played the role of Mrs. Sharma in Kick. She got fame for her role of Lakshmi in Pan Nalin’s film Angry Indian Goddess in the year 2015.
The film was screened at several film festivals and was 1st runner up for the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.
She has acted in several Hindi films including Mumbai Central, Mom, The Sky is Pink, and more.
She has acted in Malayalam movies Haram and Sexy Durga. She acted in a trilingual film Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani? in the year 2016.
Television
She made her professional debut on the small screen with Kuch Toh Log Kahenge in the year 2013.
She played the role of Suhasini Trehan: Mallika’s Sister-in-law in the serial. She also appeared as Agent Veena in the action-thriller TV series 24 in the year 2013.
She also played the role of Subhadra in Sacred Games. In the year 2022, She was seen in the Netflix’s series called The Fame Game.
Social Work
She joined an international NGO in the year 2014 to help the people in the Nepal earthquake.
She adopted a drought-prone village Pandhari in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra and later went on to adopt one more.
She started an NGO called Nabhangan Foundation in the year 2018. She is a core member of Citizens for Tomorrow, an NGO by Juhi Chawla to control plastic pollution.
Marital Status
She is married to Nawdeep Puranik who is the vice-president of an IT company based in Pune.
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Some Unknown Facts About Rajshri Deshpande
- She has worked in more than 30 short films.
- She has made appearances in few TV commercials.
- She was born and brought up in Aurangabad, Maharashtra.
- She is the founder of Czar Content, a film production agency.
- She specialises in Sword fighting and Kalaripattu martial arts.
- In the year 2018, She acted in British crime drama TV series McMafia.
- She took acting classes from Rob Reece’s Actors Studio, and Naseeruddin Shah’s Method School.
- She is a trained kathakali dancer. She has worked as a part-time dance instructor to manage her finance when she was in college.